Top 10 Methods to Increase Internal Linking of your Blog
Internal Linking has a lot’s of features while we care about Improving a blog is every aspects. Internal Linking can help you to gain more Page views to your blog. This will make readers to stay on your blog for a Long time reading your articles. As well as, Internal Linking can help you in making all your Page Indexed by Search Engines. We can define Internal Linking as a “Chain Between Related articles of a blog“.
In this article, I will introduce you the Top 10 Internal Linking Methods you can apply in your blog.
1. Use Related Posts Plugin
This is one of the best option I selected for Improving the Internal Linking of my blog. Using this plugin, your blog reader will stay in your blog reading articles for a long time. After reading an article the eyes of the readers will automatically move to the Related articles. Thus it is an easy way to gain more pageviews to your blog.
Wordpress Plugin for Showing ‘Related Posts’ behind Posts
2. Make a List of Popular Posts and Keep it in the Sidebar
Hope you have seen the Popular Posts list of my blog in the right sidebar. I think this plugin made those articles to improve and improve their ranking in Search Engines. I am sure that 80% of my readers will go through it and all that I need is that!
wordpress-popular-posts/”>Wordpress Plugin for Popular Posts
3. Include Links In your Posts
I follow this tip whenever there is a chance. There maybe a lot’s of phrases which is similar to your olden articles. Don’t forget to link towards that articles. If your reader is more interested to learn further about it, they’ll surely make a click on it. In my opinion placing links in the first paragraph will be more effective than placing it anywhere in the post.
I have mentioned this tip in Top Wordpress SEO Tips & Techniques.
4. Create an Archive Page
Although I do not have this, I think creating an Archive page Will help you to Improve the Page Index of your blog. Readers of your blog maybe likely to see what you have written in the past days. Archive Page also acts as your Blog History
5. Improve 404 Page of your blog
The visitors of your blog will not get attracted towards your blog if they see your default usual 404 error page. If you make modify it with Related links and Content, you can dream a little traffic from them.
My opinion is to Go through Wordpress Codex about Creating a 404 error Page.
6. Use Sitemap
I have already written about the Importance and Use of a Sitemap. We can define Sitemap as a List of Internal Links of your blog which helps Search Engines to Crawl. Thus make sure that you have a Well equipped Sitemap for your blog.
7. Use a KB Linker Wordpress Plugin
KB Linker Wordpress Plugin will Create Link Automatically in commonly used phrases throughout their blog posts. Specially designed for bloggers intended to Improve the Internal Linking of a blog.
Download aLinks Wordpress Plugin
8. Making Post Series
I learned this method of Internal Linking from Problogger.net of Darren Rowse. He has a lot’s of post series and which I liked the most of his post series is Adsense Tips to Improve your earnings – a series which contains more than 10 posts.
9. Add ‘Tag Cloud’ in your sidebar
Adding a Tag cloud in your sidebar will be more useful to your readers to allow them to read about the topic what they wish. Bigger sized Tags will show us what the blog is mainly dealing with.
10. Add ‘Next Page’ and ‘Previous Page’ below posts
I met with this feature just before a week while I was going through one of my friend’s blog. Even though my blog doesn’t has that feature, I am sure that this will make all your posts Interlinked.
Applying the above tips in a well manner can Improve your blog in Search Engine Optimization and will help in making your blog User-friendly.
The aList and popular post plugins are great ideas.
Thanks
Thanks will use this for my new blog, jijo sunny please check it out at http://www.mexpect.com and thanks for your advice you gave me !
Woohoo! The exact clone of old mextena… Huh??
Happy to see that people started making the duplicate of my blog. (just kidding)
Keep blogging. Best of Luck.